Re: How to detect filename conflicts with uninstalled ports?

2010-11-22 Thread Mykola Dzham
Charlie Kester wrote: I'm working on a new port that installs a program with a name that seems like it would already be taken, but I don't have anything by that name on my system -- even though I have lots of ports installed. I know that I can use portsdb -r to find all the ports that

Re: How to detect filename conflicts with uninstalled ports?

2010-11-21 Thread Anders F Björklund
Charlie Kester wrote: But I expect these two find greps will detect the majority of filename conflicts. Unless someone has a better recommendation, I'll settle for less than perfect. Using a MANIFEST file for packages works, if you have one available. It's simply a file listing of the

How to detect filename conflicts with uninstalled ports?

2010-11-20 Thread Charlie Kester
I'm working on a new port that installs a program with a name that seems like it would already be taken, but I don't have anything by that name on my system -- even though I have lots of ports installed. I know that I can use portsdb -r to find all the ports that depend on a given port, whether

Re: How to detect filename conflicts with uninstalled ports?

2010-11-20 Thread Charlie Kester
On Sat 20 Nov 2010 at 17:23:37 PST Charlie Kester wrote: I'm working on a new port that installs a program with a name that seems like it would already be taken, but I don't have anything by that name on my system -- even though I have lots of ports installed. I know that I can use portsdb -r

Re: How to detect filename conflicts with uninstalled ports?

2010-11-20 Thread Robert Huff
Charlie Kester writes: On Sat 20 Nov 2010 at 17:23:37 PST Charlie Kester wrote: I'm working on a new port that installs a program with a name that seems like it would already be taken, but I don't have anything by that name on my system -- even though I have lots of ports installed.

Re: How to detect filename conflicts with uninstalled ports?

2010-11-20 Thread Charlie Kester
On Sat 20 Nov 2010 at 19:33:01 PST Robert Huff wrote: Charlie Kester writes: On Sat 20 Nov 2010 at 17:23:37 PST Charlie Kester wrote: I'm working on a new port that installs a program with a name that seems like it would already be taken, but I don't have anything by that name on my

Re: How to detect filename conflicts with uninstalled ports?

2010-11-20 Thread Robert Huff
Charlie Kester writes: But I expect these two find greps will detect the majority of filename conflicts. Unless someone has a better recommendation, I'll settle for less than perfect. If this is a one-time thing, your best policy might be to provide the (proposed) name and see

Re: How to detect filename conflicts with uninstalled ports?

2010-11-20 Thread Charlie Kester
On Sat 20 Nov 2010 at 20:34:30 PST Robert Huff wrote: Charlie Kester writes: But I expect these two find greps will detect the majority of filename conflicts. Unless someone has a better recommendation, I'll settle for less than perfect. If this is a one-time thing, your best